US Plant Patent PP4162
Bronze Dolly
Chrysanthemum named Bronze Dolly
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 6, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 14, 1997, but this patent ends 801 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4162
- Filed
- February 14, 1977
- Granted
- December 6, 1977
- Expires
- December 6, 1994
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- GRUNWALD WALTER
Abstract
A sport of the cultivar Dolly characterized by its unique medium bronze color and somewhat larger flower size, its other characteristics being similar to those of the parent variety.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new variety of chrysanthemum plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the medium bronze coloration of its flowers and their somewhat larger size as compared to the parent variety; and ability to be flowered the year around with a substantially uniform 9-week response.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4162 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.